Patrick Theodore Moore

Patrick Theodore Moore (22 September 1821-19 February 1883) was a Confederate States Army Brigadier-General during the American Civil War.

Biography
Patrick Theodore Moore was born in Galway, Ireland in 1821, and his family emigrated to Canada in 1835 and then to Massachusetts, where his father served as British consul. He moved to Richmond, Virginia in 1850 and worked as a merchant and a captain in the Virginia militia, owning five slaves. After Virginia seceded from the Union, Moore became colonel of the 1st Virginia Infantry. He suffered a head wound at the Battle of Blackburn's Ford on 18 July 1861, incapacitating him for further field duty. He instead served on Joseph E. Johnston's staff from October 1861 to May 1862 and to James Longstreet from May to July 1862, and he became a judge advocate general for the Trans-Allegheny Department. On 20 September 1864, he was promoted to Brigadier-General, and he commanded local defense troops in Richmond. He was paroled in Manchester on 30 April 1865 and pardoned on 14 June 1865, and he worked as an insurance agent after the war until his death in 1883 at the age of 61.